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Grant is doing wonderful things." "A smart chap," commented Daddy. "If he has to do this for a living I'm sorry for him, and if he isn't compelled to he's probably some sort of useful crank." "At any rate Sweetapple Cove appreciates him," I said. "I have no doubt he's an angel with pin-feathers sprouting all over him," retorted Dad.
Moreover, it surprises one to be assured, on the irrefutable and quite unquestioned authority of "old Aunt Anne Sweetapple," that aged cats always become playful before a gale of wind comes on. "I never gets sea boils," one old chap told me the other day. "How is that?" I asked. "Oh! I always cuts my nails on a Monday, so I never has any." There is a great belief in fairies on the coast.
I'm afraid, Daddy dear, that the fresh air of Sweetapple Cove is a dreadful fiction. But it must be lovely outside." She was looking through the door, which stood widely opened, towards the places where the long smooth rollers broke upon the rocks, and beyond them at brown sails and screaming birds darting about in quest of prey.
"You must lie very still," I continued, "and let us make you well and strong again, for you've made dear Sweetapple Cove now, after being nearly 'ketched' by those dreadful seas, and I know that our little ship is coming safely to port."
Moreover, you have a trophy which you will take back with you, and which will be one more souvenir of Sweetapple Cove." I felt that I was brightening up again. "How beautiful it is!" I said again, quite consoled. "Look at that long, white beard under his neck, and how deeply brown his cheeks are!" "We must count the points," he proposed. He went over them several times, with the greatest care.
As gently as I could I lifted her to her feet. "I'm sorry I spoke so gruffly," I said. "But I really believe that we are going to pull him through, and that we shall save his arm." At noon-time we saw the white yacht coming out of Sweetapple Cove. She was speeding away in the direction of St. John's.
Of course just one glance such as I have seen that poor Dick give you ought to be a nice reward for any man, but then that sort of thing doesn't exactly provide..." "I am fortunate in having a little money which, in Sweetapple Cove, stretches out to a fairly important income, so that I am able to invest in futures, if that be the proper financial term.
A large proportion of the Australians having armed themselves with paper, envelopes, and a shilling's worth of stamps from the store, bethink themselves of neglected or desirable correspondents. Many a letter for Mrs Leftalone, Wallaroo Creek, or Miss Jane Sweetapple, Honeysuckle Flat, as the case may be, will find its way into the post-bag tomorrow.
And the best part of it all lies in the character of the work, which is a fine one, and in the delightful people I shall be associated with. Mrs. Barnett is a woman whom you would dearly love, and her husband is of the pick of men. Dr. Grant will spend the greater part of the year here, and Sweetapple Cove is bustling with the changes that are taking place.
"I tells yer, sor, it's a sad day, a real sad day fer Sweetapple Cove." "Damn Sweetapple Cove!" Daddy shouted right in the poor fellow's face with such energy that he leaped back in alarm. But Susie had taken hold of Daddy's arm. "Now you come erlong o' me, sor," she said, soothingly, as if she had spoken to a child. "Don't yer be gettin' excited.
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